Example sentences of "[conj] he made [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Where he made a famous name
2 Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery .
3 Surrounded by his flock he nonetheless had an eye on Omi and Erika and , although he made no apparent attempt to meet them , Erika and Omi found themselves facing him .
4 Although he made no specific commitment on its timing , this statement marked a significant change from the RPT 's firm rejection of multiparty politics in May 1990 [ see p. 37809 ] .
5 When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said .
6 Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived .
7 After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard .
8 He was left with a difficult shot from behind a bush and , although he made a brave effort , par was beyond him and Page 's three was enough for victory .
9 Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks .
10 Then came Crossley 's blunder and , although he made a fine one-handed save from Dean Holdsworth three minutes later , there were no seasonal feelings of goodwill from the Forest fans towards their 'keeper .
11 London-born Mike MacFarlane established himself as the top black British athlete by winning the 200 metres European title , though his form thereafter lapsed and , although he made the 1980 Olympic sprint team , he failed to make the finals .
12 The employee will further claim that he made no conscious effort to memorise the information .
13 The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court .
14 Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship .
15 To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense .
16 Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself .
17 Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt .
18 On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear .
19 Rudd admits that he made a big mistake in designing an H16 engine , a layout previously used only in aviation , for the new three-litre formula in 1966 .
20 This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa .
21 For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader .
22 Now , as the proud proprietor of an Athena store , he has every confidence that he made a wise decision .
23 Again there is little evidence to suggest that he made a significant contribution to the work of the court .
24 Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together .
25 Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 .
26 History has shown that he made the right choice .
27 France 's Algerian policy was his policy , not only in the sense that he made the critical decisions about when and how to launch an initiative or offer a concession , but because he personified the policy .
28 It felt like bad acting and he made a mental note .
29 I mean there was a superb advert made by film director and he made a superb ad advertisement
30 His teeth bit into her shoulder but she only came closer and he made a low , frustrated sound deep in his throat , tilting her face and staring at her with eyes filled with burning darkness .
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